Re: OT Friendly customers....

2021-01-29 Thread Heather Laine via use-livecode
Yikes. I took my eye off the list for just a few hours... Folks, please, no. None of this here. We are here to discuss something we have in common, viz, LiveCode. I like to think that focussing on something we have in common helps to heal divides and reduce extreme views on all sides, but

Re: OT Friendly customers....

2021-01-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Dude! I am quoting YOUR text! Bob S On Jan 28, 2021, at 6:15 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Bob: > Why am I still seeing this? Why are you continuing this topic? And quoting the entire text? ___

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2021-01-28 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Bob: > Why am I still seeing this? Why are you continuing this topic? And quoting the entire text? I consider the topic closed, and the horse just about beaten to death. Dead yet? Yeah...probably. Just about. I didn't start this, or even continue it - I received a series of unprovoked

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2021-01-28 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
The customers are friendly. The developers are grouchy. > On Jan 28, 2021, at 5:12 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Why am I still seeing this? > > Bob S > > >> On Jan 28, 2021, at 4:21 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> >> Stephen: >> >>> forgive me

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2021-01-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Why am I still seeing this? Bob S > On Jan 28, 2021, at 4:21 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode > wrote: > > > Stephen: > > > forgive me that last post was supposed to be for Curry only > > Stephen, I want to thank you for providing verification of the kind of hate >

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2021-01-28 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Stephen: > forgive me that last post was supposed to be for Curry only Stephen, I want to thank you for providing verification of the kind of hate speech/harrassment you were sending offline. And for the record, I didn't attack you - I mentioned the FBI's lack of action when commenting on

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2021-01-28 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
forgive me that last post was supposed to be for Curry only. -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:41 PM Stephen Barncard wrote: > Dear Curry, > What has happened in Washington was way beyond the definition of political. > You are a vindictive,

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2021-01-28 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
Dear Curry, What has happened in Washington was way beyond the definition of political. You are a vindictive, delusional, selfish person. I was trying to give you an off-ramp to your parade of lies, or at least apologize. Instead you repeated my off-list message to you on the use-list. Very low

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2021-01-28 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Jerry: > Please keep it offlist. Sorry, guy. Any implication that I'm bringing brand-new stuff onlist is inaccurate; sharing an offlist definition of what was meant by "team" - which was used right here online. > Ce fromage pue ! Je ne sais pas. Je n'ai jamais goûté de fromage français.

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2021-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Before this thread gets shut down, let me voice my views on these very important subjects: I have a strong preference for camembert. I trust this communication is well understood. There are many places for discussions of cheese and other matters, and the hosts of this list have made it clear

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2021-01-28 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
> On Jan 28, 2021, at 11:46 AM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode > wrote: > > As I wrote to you offlist, in reply to your hateful and cursing rant: Ce fromage pue ! Please keep it offlist. ___ use-livecode mailing list

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2021-01-28 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Stephen: > Curry's gaslight and personal attack Sorry guy, not true. Simply holding your post up to logic. You are political, so maybe you see politics everywhere. As I wrote to you offlist, in reply to your hateful and cursing rant: "Look again at my post. Notice the timeframe of the scams

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2021-01-28 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
My last word. Curry's gaslight and personal attack tells me all I need to know about which team Curry is cheering for. I am defending my words - I said nothing wrong or inaccurate. I was trying to calm down the temperature and Curry's response just made it worse. Enough of this freaking cheese

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2021-01-28 Thread Devin Asay via use-livecode
The H word gets tossed about far too casually nowadays. Commenting on alleged abuses perpetrated by government agencies is not hate. And if it is, then what are allusions to “dark forces” and “fake news”? Regardless, it’s just the wrong forum. And also, “cheese!” (That’s your cue, ListMom.)

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2021-01-28 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Stephen: > Putting down the FBI won’t help anything and makes me think you > might be partial to the dark forces and fake news. We get enough > of the hate through other sources and it is unwelcome here. Ah Stephen, it's good to see that you've moved on from your previous practice of

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2021-01-28 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
Curry, Putting down the FBI won’t help anything and makes me think you might be partial to the dark forces and fake news. We get enough of the hate through other sources and it is unwelcome here. On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:36 Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>

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2021-01-28 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Matthias: > So in my case it was not scam but just a rude person. Plenty of those around. Including what comes around. Manipulative people usually follow 2 tactics. Either buttering up for a favor, or being rude to apply pressure. Sometimes both; they will abruptly switch if one fails. In

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2021-01-28 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
Hi again, the customer finally replied and for whatever reason the software is working now. ?? But no excuses or so from his side. So in my case it was not scam but just a rude person. Matthias - Matthias Rebbe Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > Am 26.01.2021 um 18:16 schrieb matthias

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2021-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 1/26/21 12:29 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: There was a great website years ago that I can no longer find, in which a women strung along one of these guys, posting what she was doing and the correspondence. If you like that, you'll absolutely love this:

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2021-01-26 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
Bob bumbled, > WAIT… THAT was a SCAM??? Definitely. He actually sent the money to me. There was a great website years ago that I can no longer find, in which a women strung along one of these guys, posting what she was doing and the correspondence. She became increasingly salacious,

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2021-01-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
WAIT… THAT was a SCAM??? Bob S On Jan 26, 2021, at 9:45 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Honestly with all the SCAM email out there from Nigerian Princes to "I am dying and wish you to manage my million as I have no heirs"

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2021-01-26 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Can you contact him on LinkedIn to verify he sent that email? If it isn't fraudulent he may be looking for a free copy by requesting a refund and then using the app anyway. But it sounds like a fake email to me. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

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2021-01-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
When  people buy our software an email with a license key is sent to them. We probably get a handful of people contacting support each MONTH with problems - in most cases they are polite and just want the problem solved, which is usually that they are using the wrong license key with the wrong

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2021-01-26 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
Hi Bill, then of course i could be happy to get such emails not so often. ;) Regarding your concerns, i don't think that it is scam. The customer really purchased the software and if i would refund the purchase no one else as the customer himself had an advantage of it. But i keep that in

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2021-01-26 Thread ELS Prothero via use-livecode
Matthias, I regularly get emails that threaten to do financial harm if I don’t do some kind of payment to them. If it’s a scam, the return email may be spoofed also. Once I got an email from a known friend requesting assistance during a travel problem, but the email had been hijacked. From that

OT Friendly customers....

2021-01-26 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
Hi all, today i had a really unfriendly email from a customer and i would like to show what independent developers sometimes have to deal with. First some information... i am selling a Win/Mac/Linux tool through Fastspring for years. The software is protected using Zygodact from Jacqueline